suppress

suppress
verb
1 stop sth by using force
ADVERB
▪ brutally, ruthlessly, violently
▪

A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.

VERB + SUPPRESS
▪ attempt to, seek to, try to
▪ use sth to
▪

They often use violence to suppress opposition.

PHRASES
▪ an attempt to suppress sth
2 stop sth from being seen/known
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪ effectively
▪

The medication effectively suppressed the pain.

▪ deliberately
▪

This information had been deliberately suppressed.

▪ systematically
VERB + SUPPRESS
▪ attempt to, seek to, try to
PHRASES
▪ an attempt to suppress sth
3 stop yourself doing/expressing sth
ADVERB
▪ barely, hardly
▪

He could hardly suppress his surprise.

▪

Her face was charged with barely suppressed anger.

▪

Nicole could barely suppress her laughter.

▪ instantly
▪

The disloyal thought was instantly suppressed.

▪ quickly
VERB + SUPPRESS
▪ be unable to, cannot
▪

She was unable to suppress a giggle.

▪

He could no longer suppress his anger.

▪ try to
▪ manage to
▪ be hard to
Suppress is used with these nouns as the object: ↑anger, ↑appetite, ↑chuckle, ↑cough, ↑demonstration, ↑desire, ↑dissent, ↑effect, ↑emotion, ↑excitement, ↑exclamation, ↑feeling, ↑giggle, ↑grin, ↑groan, ↑growth, ↑impulse, ↑information, ↑instinct, ↑insurrection, ↑irritation, ↑laugh, ↑laughter, ↑memory, ↑moan, ↑movement, ↑news, ↑opposition, ↑production, ↑rebellion, ↑reflex, ↑revolt, ↑rising, ↑scream, ↑shiver, ↑shudder, ↑sigh, ↑smile, ↑symptom, ↑truth, ↑turnout, ↑uprising, ↑urge, ↑vote, ↑yawn

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